Golf-club.



C. H. SEELY.

, 12. 1,026 181 Patented May 14, 1912.

. WITN ESSES:

w Oma ATTORNE CHARLES H. SEELY, OF NOROTON, CONNECTICUT.

GOLF-CLUB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patcnted May 14, 1912.

Application filed January 19, 1912. Serial No. 672,203.

To aZZ whom 1' t may concem Be it known that I, CHARLES H. SEELY, acitizen of the United States, residing at N oroton, Fairfield county,Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful lmprovements inGolf-Clubs; and I do declare the :following to he a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to golf clubs and has for its Objects, to improvethe balance of the club, to throw a relatively larger portion of theweight of the head nearer the medial line of the striking face thereof,to lighten the shank of the head, and to so secure the shaft to suchshank as to insure a resiliency at a location near the head itself, andwith these ends in view my invention consists in certain details ofconstruction and combination of parts hereinafter fully described andthen particularly pointed out in the claims which conclude.

this description.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a perspective view illnstratinga golf club constrncted in accordance with my improvement the shaftbeing broken away Fig. 2 a detail perspective of the head of suchelub-Fig. 3 a vertical longitudinal section of the club head, and Fig. 4a detail broken View of the lower portion of the shaft.

Similar numerals of reference denote like parts in the several figuresof the drawing.

Heretofore, golf clubs of all descriptions have sometimes been made withhosen of more or less lengths, a wooden club having a short hose toa'ft'ord a Socket for the insertion of the bottom of the shaft, whilethe hose of an iron club was considerably longer and likewise afforded asoeket for the insertion of the lower end of the shaft.

The length andweight of the shafts of golf clubs, and also the weight ofthe heads of such clubs, do not Vary materially because they arestandardized, so to speak, but very little, if any, attention has beenpaid to the relative distribution of weight between the hosen and theheads of the clubs. Also, due attention being given to the generalStrength of the club, nothing has been accomplished in the way ofconstructing the hosen in such manner that they shall possess a certaindegree of resiliency, whereby the head will yielcl slightly to theimpact against a ball and instantly recover so as to add oonsiderably tothe driving distance of such club.

My invcntion aims toward thc perfection of gcflf clubs in the abovenamed particulars and will be best understood from the followingdescription.

1 represents the blade of an ordinary iron club and 2 the striking facethereof. The hose of the club is divided so as to form two spacedvertically disposed resilient tangs, 3, t, which preferably diverge fromthe bottom upward and may be tapered according to the amount andlocation of resiliency desired.

The spacing between the tangs 3, 4, is preferably continued downwardlythrough the heel of the club as seen at 5, in Fig. 3, and the shaft G ofthe club has its lower portion 7 slightly tapered as usual so as to fitsnugly between the tangs 3, 4, the extreme lower end of the shaft havingan enlargement 9 which fits within the Opening 5 in the blade of theclub, said shaft being secured in position by means of rivets 8 driventhrough the tangs and the portion 7.

If desired, in order to afford a more finished appearance, the usualwinding may be et'fectcd around the tangs 3, 4, and the lower end of theshaft.

Of course the Opening 5 need not extend Clear through to the bottom edgeof the blade, and also such Opening may extencl as far forward of theblade as may be deemed desirable.

The mere addition of wooden faces to the front and rear faces of theblade 2 would transform an iron club into what is known in golf circlesas a Driver or a Brassie By forming the hose as is shown in the drawing,the shank portion of the club is made considerably lighter than theordinary hose of an iron club, and this will increase the proportion ofthe weight of the blade as compared with the weight of the hose, whichis greatly to be desired. Furthermore, the club will possess aresiliency at the tang portion, and this resiliency may be localizedalong said tangs according to the nature of the taper of the latter; forinstance, a taper such as is shown in the drawing will throw theresiliency higher up on the tang than would a taper of such tangs in areverse direction, that is to say, a taper caused by making the tangswider at the tops and narrower at the bottoms.

I do not wish to be limited to any particular manner of forming thistaper, since the gst of my inventon resides in the broad idea ofproviding a golf club with upwardly extendng spaoed resilent metaltangs, between which the lower end of the shaftmay be secured.

Having thus described my nvention what I claim as new and desire toSecure by Letters Patent is 1. A golf club, comprisng a blade or head,spaced resilient metal tangs extendng vertically from the heel of saidblade or head, and a shaft whose lower extremity is inserted betweensaid tangs and secured thereto.

2. A golf club, oomprising a blade or head, a par of spaced resilientdiverging and tapered metal tangs extendng Vertically from the heel ofsaid blade or head, the space between said tangs being contnued downthrough the heel of said club to the bottom edge thereof, a shaft whoselower extremty is' nserted within said space so as to be embraeed on twoopposite sides only by said tangs and means for securing said shaft andtangs together.

In testmony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses;

CHARLES H. SEELY. lVtnesses:

F. VV. SMITH, J r., M. T. LONGDEN.

Gopies of this patent may be obtaned for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

